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Chicago examiner price five cents vol xiii no 3 a m sunday Chicago july 21 1912 sunday mrs harriman final arbiter in rail strike appeal to magnate's widow will be taken by shopmen on forty-two roads ; nine unions are involved conference with association of western lines is sought by leaders of men upon a woman's shoulders the shouldeis of mrs mary harriman widow of e h harriman the : llttle giant of the rail road world rests the tremendous burden of ending the iong strike of the shopmen and operatives of the Illinois central ana other harriman lines an appeal to mrs harriman will be taken by the officers of the federation of system federations composed of shopmen â– on forty-two of the largest and most pow erful western railroads arrangements are now being made to have a committee appointed to wait upon mrs harrimau this appeal by the federation represent ing thousauds of workingmen recalls the effort made during the american railway l'nion strike in 18Â»1 to have mrs jane lathrwp stanford widow of leland stan ford one of the four big owners of the central and southern pacific systems to nse her influence in ending the strike xhat effort failed the men now arranging the appeal to mrs harriman believe that it will be ef fective because of her close interest in railroad matters she is a large holder in railway stocks and has shown a keen in terest in the practical management of her late husband's affairs strike in effect nearly a year the federation of system federations through its chairman o a wharton has long tried to obtain a conference with the official of the association of western railroads to consider the Illinois central nd harriman lines strike through correspondence exchanged be tween officials of these two organizations it baa been understood that the associa tion of western railroads refuses to ater cede if mrs harrlman'i influence can be ob tained to induce the officials of the harri maa ilnei to hold a conference with the union officials chairman wharton states that the association of western railways will then take the case for consideration the strike has been in effect since sep tember 30 1911 nine unions are involved just what the arguments to be pre vented by mrs harriman will be has not | pet been decided whether the cases of possible suffering of the women and chil dren of the employes or whether the ap peal will be one of strict economic re lations has not been made known appeal by nine union heads the letter rent to the association of western railways asking their influence : in ending the strike was signed by the following nine international union presi dents w h johnston of the machinists j w ; kline blacksmiths john j carrigan rall ; way clerks george f hedrick painters and decorators j a franklin boilermak ers m o'sullivnn sheet metal workers james wilson patternmakers j t kin lella steamfitters ana helpers and a o wharton chairman of the federation of system federations the letter follows we believe that a conference wul at least prore beneficial eren though we may be unable to ac complish 11 that ire hare in mind it ii our de lire to place a number of matters squarely before the association of western railways matters that hare to do with the future as well as the present thtre exists on our part a desire to bring about a mon permanent and stable condition of affairs we bsllere that the association of western ilailways should be interested in this proposition to the ex tent of meeting the undersigned in conference if aot then it must be considered responsible for any subsequent actijn on the part of the employes who have thus been denied an opportunity of pre senting uieir side of the question reply of railroad officials the railroad officials replied to the union officials accordingly the association of western railway cannot un dertake to hold such a conference without knowl . edge of jurisdiction or authority in the matter re r f erred to as stated in my letter to you of may 21 the association has no criminal jurisdiction and can not negotiate differences between iu members and employes nor can it undertake to act in the'ea pacity of arbitrator or mediator as suggested in your letter ncr to in any way enter into a dis pute existing between the employes of any railways and their employing companies unless all parties to such dispute should agree and request that the matter be so handled ' signed w a oarrett it is upon the last rew lines of this let ter stating that the association can not take up th matter unless both sides agree to arbitrate it that the fed eration of shopmen base their hopes of the success of mrs ilarriman's j i intervention if she can be persuaded ! enter the c;ise she has the ! ss^m 1 " to induce the railroad officials t.i ' the c.ise for arbitration and that the employes are now contend spirit of w.t stead photographed claim denver physician and psychic says picture was taken ten days ago sends proof to london denver colo july 20 that the spirit of william t stead was photo graphed in denver ten days ngo is the statement of dr charles marshall cook episcopal divine nnd member of thfe lon don society of psycnlc research dr cook is a well-known citizen of this city and a man of standing dr cook tells of the occurrence as fol lows not long ago i received a letter from william blackswell concerning whose spiritualistic findings there is now so much comment particularly in london he was a great friend of w t stead the late famous spiritualist and he inclosed in the letter a communication he had received from stead's spirit it ended with the words i cannot say more except that i would like to be photographed at the earliest opportunity it occurred to me that it would be dif ficult to secure a picture of stead's spirit because the few reliable photographers who have succeeded in taking photographs of spirits are dead about ten days ago while i wai at the studio of alex martin a denver photographer i suddenly felt nervous and wanted to sit for a picture i mentioned to martin that i felt ill at ease and believed i woudl pose he smiled and wheeled the camera into place and i sat down in a plaiu wooden chair and he took the picture when he developed the plate there ap peared just above my right shoulder the face of william t stead i recognized it instantly it was unlike any of the many pictures which i have ever seen of him i am sendng the photo without com ment to blackswell firemen fight oil blaze imperiled by explosions in 75,000 west side fire fire starting in the basement it is be lieved from crossed electric wires prac tically destroyed a four-story brick build ing at 6o9-g13 fulton street owned by the david bradley estate yesterday afternoon oil was kept in the basement and several explosions occurred while the firemen were at work no one was hurt tl was estimated the general luss and contents would amount to about 75,000 all covered by insurance the flre had its origin below the apple ton electric company which occupies the first floor the second floor was used by the hamlin wizard oil company the plnkerton folding box company occupies the third floor the fourth floor was un used notables caught in raid italian statesmen among those arrested by milan pplice special cable te the examiner london july 20 two uutler secretaries of state other prominent men and g0,000 in cash were taken by the police in a raid on a fashionable gambling resort in jlonte catini near milan italy last night ac cording to a dispatch received by lloyd's newspaper to-day the resort wns knowu as the monte cartini club detectives disguised as patrons seized the large sum of money on the tables and arrested a co terie of gamblers of several nationalities among those arrested were the signori pavla of tese under secretaries of state parliamentary deputies casciani and ar rivalne and several men well known in political life in italy 7,000 a night for caruso tenor signs contract for twice what he ever drew before londox july 20 a london newspaper announces that cnruso has just signed a contract to sing at the national opera house in buenos aires for at least twelve performances at 7,000 each mere than twice as much as he ever got before for years caruso has been the highest paid tenor in the world and siuce 11)07 be has not averaged less than 2,250 a per formance in tho.t year he made a contract with the late henrich conried by which he was to sing nine months each year fur four years for 200,000 he agreed to slug eight times a month previous to that time he got less than 2,000 a performance girl in trance like man wellsville mo july 20 miss bes sie stewart twenty-two-year-old daughter of c t stewart a farmer uear wellsyille is buffering from a remarkable form of catalepsy or hysteria wliich physicians attribute to overwork miss stewart un til recently taught school in texas while in a trance she is reported to have read books in the dark and told of deaths oc curring in nearby towns before the news reached wellstille miss stewart during her semi-conscious state impersonates a man smokes a pipe or cigar and carries on a conversation peculiarly masculine woman throws at asquit dublin july 20 suffragettes made on other attack on premier asquith to-day while he was speaking a woman wormed her way through the crowd until she was almost within arm length of the prime minister when she nuddenly drew a paper l>ag filled with flour from beneath her wrap and hurled it at the speaker her aim was poor and the ba struck a hy stander bunting and covering several rer sons near by the woman was arresieil and hurried anny lx-fore the crowd Â« bleu was opposed to the suffrag.'ites tactics could mob her 2 killed 1 fatally hurt day's auto toll h j bonney and wife on i pleasure trip run down man on lake shore drive bohn case is repeated driver of machine speeds on after hitting aged victim boy dies of injuries two persons died and one was fatally injured yesterday as a result of their be ing struck by automobiles one of the victims was hlled instantly under eircum nces similar to tiiose in the bonn auto bile killing the other death was that leon bramberg eleven years old 1918 xdrth california avenue who was struck and fatally injured last thursday by an auto driven by x shoemaker 3319 dick ens avenue mr and mrs h j bonney 800 cass street were in the automobile that struck and probably fatally injured john funk 23 west indiana street at deleware place and lake shore drive early yesterday afternoon chester hart seventy years old was struck and killed at 9 o'clock last night near his home in maywood where he had lived for a quarter of a century without stopping to learn even the extent of his victim's injuries the driver of the ma chine put on full speed and dashed away from accurate descriptions furnished by eye witnesses the police believe that they can prevent a repetition of " â– <> holm case when after killing henry j ohn a pub lisher the chauffeur made his escape and despite the offer of rewards and the work of professional and amateur detectives was never brought to justice the acci dent occurred in february 1911 on sheri dan road and i.eland avenue victim is thrown twenty feet mr hart who was a retired real estate broker and lived at 419 xorth seventh ave nue maywood was crossing fifth nvenue and west lake street when it limousine car goiug west on lake street at about twelve miles an hour struck him throwing his t twenty feet instead of applying his s the chauffeur threw on full speed the wheels passed over mr hart's where he lay in the street his skull fractured and his body crushed his ns were removed to his home alarm for the machine was sent up but it was not seen by the pohce and is ed to have turned off lake street joing a short distance from the if the accident the police of llel irk the next village west of may reported that they had seeu no au e of the description given illinger 402 xorth second avenue rcy ballard 508 xorth first avenue s of the accident told the police that the curtains of the automobile were drawn and they were unable to determine whether there were more occupants in it than the driver raining at time of accident according to both witnesses it was rain ing at the time of the accident and they noticed the machine approaching from the east a moment before it struck hart the automobile was a limousine with a dark body and yellow gear mr and mrs bonuey had just started out for a pleasure ride when the accident oc curred that resulted in injuring funk mr bonney who is manager of the credit department of spraguo warner & co was taken into custody by the Chicago avenue after his machine had run down funk but was later released when he signed a bond assuring his presence at the station whenever the police need him mr bonney told of the accident at the statiou asserting tlint it was unavoidable some workmen were excavating in the street and were driving piles into the pave ment to make a wall for a sewer " he said they were using a steam engine to drive the piles and the engine was near the mid dle of the street i did not see kuuk te cause of the smoke and steam from the engine until i was almost on top of him drops bryan as lecturer chautauqua management heeds pro test of clark's friends montgomery mo 2 tha name of w j bryan hfl c<l from the chautauqua progran 1 august because of the criticism ivliicb has fol lowed in this clark's none district since the baltimore convention when the pro gramme came laet wees with bryan's name on it it caused quite a furore and the lo cal committee requested it be erased which was done according to a telegram from the chautauqua management mrs belmont spends 23c outfits newport suffragette quarters and offers to scrub floor newport it i july 20 mrs o h p belraont after purchasing the supplies for the new headquarters of the newport suffragettes this afternoon declared she would willingly scrub the floor if it would help the cause push is what the cause needs added the wealthy sufr frnglst the supplies purchased by mr helmont consisted of one bar of soap one crash towel and two sheets of fly paper totaling in all 22 ceuts eggshells new diet to increase the race french savants find tonic that develops vitality and prevents depopulation hen great benefactor container is declared more healthful than either the yolk or the white by paul pierre rignaux paris july 20 eat eggshells eat eggshells throw away the yolk if need be and spill out the white if you will but eat the shells then you will be healthy and happy and live to see your grand children's children such is the earnest advice given by pro fessors emmerick and loewe and pub lished widely here the words eat egggshells must not be taken too literally the learned pro fessors have prepared a liquid they call the chloride of eggshells like the al truistic eccentrics they are they have pro claimed the formula for this chloride there is no secret about it nothing proprietary so perhaps their advice should be worded drink eggshells professor emnieriek of munich is world renowned for his knowledge of diphtheria and cholera he and his colleague loewe declare that the matronly and idustrious hen is one of the greatest benefactors or mankind not because she produces eggs but because the eggs are contained in shells these learned meu assert that eggshells taken in proper form lengthen human vi tality add weight to the body destroy in jurious bacilli nourish the brain strength en the heart prevent inflammation and lend courage and energy to the human being even more important from a sociological point of view is the assertion by em merick and loewe that a diet of egg shells conduces to fecundity and preveuts depopulation they fed eggshells to four pairs of white mice within a given time fifty-four very small ones were mlded to the population cf white mice in the same given time four pairs of white mice which hnd to do without the stimulating egg shells were blessed with a progeny which numbered only nine emmerlck and loewe point out that hens cease to lay when their food lacks the calcareous elements in which egg shells are so rich they recommend that a spoonful of the chloride of eggshells be taken three times a day in water like human life which it will prolong the dose is bitter but not altogether disngreeaule tramp show 250,000 arrested as vagrant he produces wealth from his handkerchief omaha neb july 20 arrested as a vaprnnt and lodged in the city jail all lust nlpht mike curtain to-dny in police court produced more than 230,000 fro uiau old bandanna linndkerehief.ciirtaln was picked up with several tramps i can neither read nor write and i have to carry my money around with me explained cur tain who proved to be a wealthy faflher from hamilton county nebraska japanese emperor dying heir to the throne also ill hope abandoned for ruler whose reign of forty five years is nearing end washington july 20 â€” viscount chiyuada on receipt of a cable message from tokio to-day declared there seemed to be but small hope for the survival of the mikado the message said that the emperor is suffering from acute uraemic poisoning special cable to the examiner tokio july 20 a surprising thougl slight change for the better was uotec in the condition of mutsuhito emperor o1 japan at midnight to-night he was able to take a little nourishment in additior to regaining consciousness for a brief pe riod in the royal chamber the agei empress and the physicians alone are allowed to remain while the princes ol the blood royal await the momentarily ex pected word of the emperor's death in an adjoining chamber all the ministers and high dignitaries of the realm are assembled hero in re sponse to a summons from the empress who has been advised by the physicians that the emperor's hours are numbered the streets are thronged by thousands of loyal japanese and there are many meetings but all are assemblages of prayer asking for the recovery of the man who has ruled japan for forty-five years the whole nation is praying for the life of its ruler and though the capital is crowded the throngs nre silent and word of his condition passes from lip to lip among thousands with only the noise of a whisper > sigh of relief ripples over city when the news was brought from the palace of the shoguns that the emperor had improved slightly at midnight it seemed as if a low sigh of relief rippled across the entire city but there was no cheering the crown prince yoshihito who is al most as well beloved by the japanese people as his father is seriously ill in his own palace he is suffering from chicken pox but his physicians have forbidden his removal to the bedside of his father he was informed of the emperor's serious ill ness this morning and begged to be allowed to go to his father but the request was re fused yoshihito is thirty-three years old an admiral in the navy a hero of the russo japanese war his accession to the throne will be hailed with almost as much re joicing as was that of his father forty five years ago in the midst of a conversation with the empress last night the emperor suf fered a sudden collapse and the court doctors were summoned the empress remained at her husband bedside through the night and her vigil was shared by a number of the court ladies a bulletin issued by the attending phy sicians gives the history of the emperor's illness as follows since july 14 his majesty has been suf fering from intestinal trouble great , drowsiness followed the early attacks this symptom increasing rapidly on july 18 his majesty became unconscious and his brain was affected on the etening of the 10th the fever suddenly increased showing a temperature of 101.7 the pulse rate w;is 101 and the respiration 38 diagnosed as acute nephritis physicians at i a in diagnosed the cage at acnte nephritis the doctors at the consultation were cenkyo oka teneniichi aaynina and kinnosuke miura another bulletin issued froa the palsce lftte this afternoon was as follows the emperor has been suffering from diabetes since j0o4 this developed into chronic kidney trouble in 19oc ' no bulletin has been issued from the palace since 3 o'clock this afternoon but it was learned from the imperial residence that his majesty's condition remains un i changed physicians in attendance have not given up all hope it was announced that uremia had de veloped the weather is very hot the thermom eter registering so degrees in the shade his majesty's bed has been moved to a sitting room in the palace the empress remained at the bedside of her husband during the day , yoshihito the crown prince who is re covering from a case of chlckenpox and is still confined to his bed received the news of his father's illness this morn ing he has not yet been able to visit the palace his wife however repaired there at once where she now is she is acting on behalf of her hubband and con tinually communicates with him by tele phone giving him the latest news from the sick bed imperial princes have been summoned from their summer residences and with all the notables at present in the cap ital they repaired to the palnce where they await the latest news froat the sick chamber the return to tokyo of prince katsura roosevelt opposes deneen deal dixon colonel's manaaer due here to-day likely to end efforts to effect combine with the governor's crowd full ticket same as in other states is plan of bull moose chieftain for Illinois no combines are probable montana senator will replace medill mccormick outlook that separate party will win jones-merriam aid senator joseph m dixon of montana manager of colonel roosevelt's i.ull moore campaign will return to Chicago on mon day he is expected to explode i bomb that will make a tremendous noiso ir polit ical circles first of all senator dixon is expected to set forth that the bull moosu party ia going to be an entirely new party witb no affiliations with any other party cr any name right on top of that he is ex pected to declare that as a separate dis tlnct nnd independent party it will hate complete state and county tickets throngh out the country such action upon his part will settle the controversy among the bull mooeers them selves whettier they should put up a com plete ticket in Illinois brings message from colonel the colonel wants that done ii as sumed to be the message that senator dlxon is bringing straight from t il himself and if the colonel wishes that course followed why it will be followed au hands admit that because they all admit that the bull moose party is the colonel's party up to this date there is some gossip which seems to be well founded behind the attitude of colonel roosevelt for an entirely new party and complete tickets in every state it is to the effect that he has been him self admonished by his financial backers to cut loose from the republican party if he desires their aid those backers uid him the gossip rung that they wouiu t>ut up the fund for a third party free from any entanglements with the old republican regime but that they wuulii not liuunce u campaign where tha light would be as a third party in some states and as merely an independent re l.ublicai imminent in others a new party from precinct committeemen up is what the financial men are understood to have de clared for dixon may halt deneen deal if that is the word that senator dixon brings all the negotiations between the bull mooaors and liorernor deneen will be at an end the committee of five will e the governor to-morrow and get his an swer as to whether he will be for Taft or for itoosevelt but under the cew plan thnt senator dixon is expected to present it will make little difference what the an swer is senator dixon when he sets here is also expected to take entire charge of the ar langenients for the convention to begin two weaki from to-morrow he is to supersede it is understood all those who are now running the headquarters medill mccormick was clearing out hia dÂ«-sk yesterday as though he expected to give up hii ice as temporary mauager he was ju uck from a private confer ence with governor deueen at springfield but he would not tell what was said at tlmt iutorview by declaring for au entire third arty ticket senator dixon may bring the jonts merrlam crowd back into the fold that faction quit because the state call did not come straight out for a third state ti<;ket but they expected lo go back into the state convention a week from saturday and make their fight over again and with the hack ing of senator dixon they hope to win their eght state covention outlook stormy * the state convention is to have l.llh^fl delegates and the charge has been niada^b that governor deneeu hoped to h.in'i-pi^^b the downstate delegates in order k men who would be sure to dn t'.irir^h to head off a third state ticket succeeds in doing tbat and semho^h t m continued en 2d page 4th column c * Chicago and vicinity unset cl^lmj xlcs tled weatner ancl probably local show w\d ag ers sunday followed by fair and f^p cooler monday moderate northerly k winds sunday becoming variable mon >. tÂ£j j y ' range of temperatures yesterday jjf^ii vi highest s4 filsr lowest 61 fe=s average 72 free boat rides and season tickets for chicago's biggest amusement parks cut out the coupons on page 2 of the second news section to-day this edition consists op 1 news city life 2 news 6 want ads 3 â€” spobts real estate *â€” society financial foreign 7 magazine 5 editorial 8 comic

Chicago examiner price five cents vol xiii no 3 a m sunday Chicago july 21 1912 sunday mrs harriman final arbiter in rail strike appeal to magnate's widow will be taken by shopmen on forty-two roads ; nine unions are involved conference with association of western lines is sought by leaders of men upon a woman's shoulders the shouldeis of mrs mary harriman widow of e h harriman the : llttle giant of the rail road world rests the tremendous burden of ending the iong strike of the shopmen and operatives of the Illinois central ana other harriman lines an appeal to mrs harriman will be taken by the officers of the federation of system federations composed of shopmen â– on forty-two of the largest and most pow erful western railroads arrangements are now being made to have a committee appointed to wait upon mrs harrimau this appeal by the federation represent ing thousauds of workingmen recalls the effort made during the american railway l'nion strike in 18Â»1 to have mrs jane lathrwp stanford widow of leland stan ford one of the four big owners of the central and southern pacific systems to nse her influence in ending the strike xhat effort failed the men now arranging the appeal to mrs harriman believe that it will be ef fective because of her close interest in railroad matters she is a large holder in railway stocks and has shown a keen in terest in the practical management of her late husband's affairs strike in effect nearly a year the federation of system federations through its chairman o a wharton has long tried to obtain a conference with the official of the association of western railroads to consider the Illinois central nd harriman lines strike through correspondence exchanged be tween officials of these two organizations it baa been understood that the associa tion of western railroads refuses to ater cede if mrs harrlman'i influence can be ob tained to induce the officials of the harri maa ilnei to hold a conference with the union officials chairman wharton states that the association of western railways will then take the case for consideration the strike has been in effect since sep tember 30 1911 nine unions are involved just what the arguments to be pre vented by mrs harriman will be has not | pet been decided whether the cases of possible suffering of the women and chil dren of the employes or whether the ap peal will be one of strict economic re lations has not been made known appeal by nine union heads the letter rent to the association of western railways asking their influence : in ending the strike was signed by the following nine international union presi dents w h johnston of the machinists j w ; kline blacksmiths john j carrigan rall ; way clerks george f hedrick painters and decorators j a franklin boilermak ers m o'sullivnn sheet metal workers james wilson patternmakers j t kin lella steamfitters ana helpers and a o wharton chairman of the federation of system federations the letter follows we believe that a conference wul at least prore beneficial eren though we may be unable to ac complish 11 that ire hare in mind it ii our de lire to place a number of matters squarely before the association of western railways matters that hare to do with the future as well as the present thtre exists on our part a desire to bring about a mon permanent and stable condition of affairs we bsllere that the association of western ilailways should be interested in this proposition to the ex tent of meeting the undersigned in conference if aot then it must be considered responsible for any subsequent actijn on the part of the employes who have thus been denied an opportunity of pre senting uieir side of the question reply of railroad officials the railroad officials replied to the union officials accordingly the association of western railway cannot un dertake to hold such a conference without knowl . edge of jurisdiction or authority in the matter re r f erred to as stated in my letter to you of may 21 the association has no criminal jurisdiction and can not negotiate differences between iu members and employes nor can it undertake to act in the'ea pacity of arbitrator or mediator as suggested in your letter ncr to in any way enter into a dis pute existing between the employes of any railways and their employing companies unless all parties to such dispute should agree and request that the matter be so handled ' signed w a oarrett it is upon the last rew lines of this let ter stating that the association can not take up th matter unless both sides agree to arbitrate it that the fed eration of shopmen base their hopes of the success of mrs ilarriman's j i intervention if she can be persuaded ! enter the c;ise she has the ! ss^m 1 " to induce the railroad officials t.i ' the c.ise for arbitration and that the employes are now contend spirit of w.t stead photographed claim denver physician and psychic says picture was taken ten days ago sends proof to london denver colo july 20 that the spirit of william t stead was photo graphed in denver ten days ngo is the statement of dr charles marshall cook episcopal divine nnd member of thfe lon don society of psycnlc research dr cook is a well-known citizen of this city and a man of standing dr cook tells of the occurrence as fol lows not long ago i received a letter from william blackswell concerning whose spiritualistic findings there is now so much comment particularly in london he was a great friend of w t stead the late famous spiritualist and he inclosed in the letter a communication he had received from stead's spirit it ended with the words i cannot say more except that i would like to be photographed at the earliest opportunity it occurred to me that it would be dif ficult to secure a picture of stead's spirit because the few reliable photographers who have succeeded in taking photographs of spirits are dead about ten days ago while i wai at the studio of alex martin a denver photographer i suddenly felt nervous and wanted to sit for a picture i mentioned to martin that i felt ill at ease and believed i woudl pose he smiled and wheeled the camera into place and i sat down in a plaiu wooden chair and he took the picture when he developed the plate there ap peared just above my right shoulder the face of william t stead i recognized it instantly it was unlike any of the many pictures which i have ever seen of him i am sendng the photo without com ment to blackswell firemen fight oil blaze imperiled by explosions in 75,000 west side fire fire starting in the basement it is be lieved from crossed electric wires prac tically destroyed a four-story brick build ing at 6o9-g13 fulton street owned by the david bradley estate yesterday afternoon oil was kept in the basement and several explosions occurred while the firemen were at work no one was hurt tl was estimated the general luss and contents would amount to about 75,000 all covered by insurance the flre had its origin below the apple ton electric company which occupies the first floor the second floor was used by the hamlin wizard oil company the plnkerton folding box company occupies the third floor the fourth floor was un used notables caught in raid italian statesmen among those arrested by milan pplice special cable te the examiner london july 20 two uutler secretaries of state other prominent men and g0,000 in cash were taken by the police in a raid on a fashionable gambling resort in jlonte catini near milan italy last night ac cording to a dispatch received by lloyd's newspaper to-day the resort wns knowu as the monte cartini club detectives disguised as patrons seized the large sum of money on the tables and arrested a co terie of gamblers of several nationalities among those arrested were the signori pavla of tese under secretaries of state parliamentary deputies casciani and ar rivalne and several men well known in political life in italy 7,000 a night for caruso tenor signs contract for twice what he ever drew before londox july 20 a london newspaper announces that cnruso has just signed a contract to sing at the national opera house in buenos aires for at least twelve performances at 7,000 each mere than twice as much as he ever got before for years caruso has been the highest paid tenor in the world and siuce 11)07 be has not averaged less than 2,250 a per formance in tho.t year he made a contract with the late henrich conried by which he was to sing nine months each year fur four years for 200,000 he agreed to slug eight times a month previous to that time he got less than 2,000 a performance girl in trance like man wellsville mo july 20 miss bes sie stewart twenty-two-year-old daughter of c t stewart a farmer uear wellsyille is buffering from a remarkable form of catalepsy or hysteria wliich physicians attribute to overwork miss stewart un til recently taught school in texas while in a trance she is reported to have read books in the dark and told of deaths oc curring in nearby towns before the news reached wellstille miss stewart during her semi-conscious state impersonates a man smokes a pipe or cigar and carries on a conversation peculiarly masculine woman throws at asquit dublin july 20 suffragettes made on other attack on premier asquith to-day while he was speaking a woman wormed her way through the crowd until she was almost within arm length of the prime minister when she nuddenly drew a paper l>ag filled with flour from beneath her wrap and hurled it at the speaker her aim was poor and the ba struck a hy stander bunting and covering several rer sons near by the woman was arresieil and hurried anny lx-fore the crowd Â« bleu was opposed to the suffrag.'ites tactics could mob her 2 killed 1 fatally hurt day's auto toll h j bonney and wife on i pleasure trip run down man on lake shore drive bohn case is repeated driver of machine speeds on after hitting aged victim boy dies of injuries two persons died and one was fatally injured yesterday as a result of their be ing struck by automobiles one of the victims was hlled instantly under eircum nces similar to tiiose in the bonn auto bile killing the other death was that leon bramberg eleven years old 1918 xdrth california avenue who was struck and fatally injured last thursday by an auto driven by x shoemaker 3319 dick ens avenue mr and mrs h j bonney 800 cass street were in the automobile that struck and probably fatally injured john funk 23 west indiana street at deleware place and lake shore drive early yesterday afternoon chester hart seventy years old was struck and killed at 9 o'clock last night near his home in maywood where he had lived for a quarter of a century without stopping to learn even the extent of his victim's injuries the driver of the ma chine put on full speed and dashed away from accurate descriptions furnished by eye witnesses the police believe that they can prevent a repetition of " â– <> holm case when after killing henry j ohn a pub lisher the chauffeur made his escape and despite the offer of rewards and the work of professional and amateur detectives was never brought to justice the acci dent occurred in february 1911 on sheri dan road and i.eland avenue victim is thrown twenty feet mr hart who was a retired real estate broker and lived at 419 xorth seventh ave nue maywood was crossing fifth nvenue and west lake street when it limousine car goiug west on lake street at about twelve miles an hour struck him throwing his t twenty feet instead of applying his s the chauffeur threw on full speed the wheels passed over mr hart's where he lay in the street his skull fractured and his body crushed his ns were removed to his home alarm for the machine was sent up but it was not seen by the pohce and is ed to have turned off lake street joing a short distance from the if the accident the police of llel irk the next village west of may reported that they had seeu no au e of the description given illinger 402 xorth second avenue rcy ballard 508 xorth first avenue s of the accident told the police that the curtains of the automobile were drawn and they were unable to determine whether there were more occupants in it than the driver raining at time of accident according to both witnesses it was rain ing at the time of the accident and they noticed the machine approaching from the east a moment before it struck hart the automobile was a limousine with a dark body and yellow gear mr and mrs bonuey had just started out for a pleasure ride when the accident oc curred that resulted in injuring funk mr bonney who is manager of the credit department of spraguo warner & co was taken into custody by the Chicago avenue after his machine had run down funk but was later released when he signed a bond assuring his presence at the station whenever the police need him mr bonney told of the accident at the statiou asserting tlint it was unavoidable some workmen were excavating in the street and were driving piles into the pave ment to make a wall for a sewer " he said they were using a steam engine to drive the piles and the engine was near the mid dle of the street i did not see kuuk te cause of the smoke and steam from the engine until i was almost on top of him drops bryan as lecturer chautauqua management heeds pro test of clark's friends montgomery mo 2 tha name of w j bryan hfl c sigh of relief ripples over city when the news was brought from the palace of the shoguns that the emperor had improved slightly at midnight it seemed as if a low sigh of relief rippled across the entire city but there was no cheering the crown prince yoshihito who is al most as well beloved by the japanese people as his father is seriously ill in his own palace he is suffering from chicken pox but his physicians have forbidden his removal to the bedside of his father he was informed of the emperor's serious ill ness this morning and begged to be allowed to go to his father but the request was re fused yoshihito is thirty-three years old an admiral in the navy a hero of the russo japanese war his accession to the throne will be hailed with almost as much re joicing as was that of his father forty five years ago in the midst of a conversation with the empress last night the emperor suf fered a sudden collapse and the court doctors were summoned the empress remained at her husband bedside through the night and her vigil was shared by a number of the court ladies a bulletin issued by the attending phy sicians gives the history of the emperor's illness as follows since july 14 his majesty has been suf fering from intestinal trouble great , drowsiness followed the early attacks this symptom increasing rapidly on july 18 his majesty became unconscious and his brain was affected on the etening of the 10th the fever suddenly increased showing a temperature of 101.7 the pulse rate w;is 101 and the respiration 38 diagnosed as acute nephritis physicians at i a in diagnosed the cage at acnte nephritis the doctors at the consultation were cenkyo oka teneniichi aaynina and kinnosuke miura another bulletin issued froa the palsce lftte this afternoon was as follows the emperor has been suffering from diabetes since j0o4 this developed into chronic kidney trouble in 19oc ' no bulletin has been issued from the palace since 3 o'clock this afternoon but it was learned from the imperial residence that his majesty's condition remains un i changed physicians in attendance have not given up all hope it was announced that uremia had de veloped the weather is very hot the thermom eter registering so degrees in the shade his majesty's bed has been moved to a sitting room in the palace the empress remained at the bedside of her husband during the day , yoshihito the crown prince who is re covering from a case of chlckenpox and is still confined to his bed received the news of his father's illness this morn ing he has not yet been able to visit the palace his wife however repaired there at once where she now is she is acting on behalf of her hubband and con tinually communicates with him by tele phone giving him the latest news from the sick bed imperial princes have been summoned from their summer residences and with all the notables at present in the cap ital they repaired to the palnce where they await the latest news froat the sick chamber the return to tokyo of prince katsura roosevelt opposes deneen deal dixon colonel's manaaer due here to-day likely to end efforts to effect combine with the governor's crowd full ticket same as in other states is plan of bull moose chieftain for Illinois no combines are probable montana senator will replace medill mccormick outlook that separate party will win jones-merriam aid senator joseph m dixon of montana manager of colonel roosevelt's i.ull moore campaign will return to Chicago on mon day he is expected to explode i bomb that will make a tremendous noiso ir polit ical circles first of all senator dixon is expected to set forth that the bull moosu party ia going to be an entirely new party witb no affiliations with any other party cr any name right on top of that he is ex pected to declare that as a separate dis tlnct nnd independent party it will hate complete state and county tickets throngh out the country such action upon his part will settle the controversy among the bull mooeers them selves whettier they should put up a com plete ticket in Illinois brings message from colonel the colonel wants that done ii as sumed to be the message that senator dlxon is bringing straight from t il himself and if the colonel wishes that course followed why it will be followed au hands admit that because they all admit that the bull moose party is the colonel's party up to this date there is some gossip which seems to be well founded behind the attitude of colonel roosevelt for an entirely new party and complete tickets in every state it is to the effect that he has been him self admonished by his financial backers to cut loose from the republican party if he desires their aid those backers uid him the gossip rung that they wouiu t>ut up the fund for a third party free from any entanglements with the old republican regime but that they wuulii not liuunce u campaign where tha light would be as a third party in some states and as merely an independent re l.ublicai imminent in others a new party from precinct committeemen up is what the financial men are understood to have de clared for dixon may halt deneen deal if that is the word that senator dixon brings all the negotiations between the bull mooaors and liorernor deneen will be at an end the committee of five will e the governor to-morrow and get his an swer as to whether he will be for Taft or for itoosevelt but under the cew plan thnt senator dixon is expected to present it will make little difference what the an swer is senator dixon when he sets here is also expected to take entire charge of the ar langenients for the convention to begin two weaki from to-morrow he is to supersede it is understood all those who are now running the headquarters medill mccormick was clearing out hia dÂ«-sk yesterday as though he expected to give up hii ice as temporary mauager he was ju uck from a private confer ence with governor deueen at springfield but he would not tell what was said at tlmt iutorview by declaring for au entire third arty ticket senator dixon may bring the jonts merrlam crowd back into the fold that faction quit because the state call did not come straight out for a third state ti. tÂ£j j y ' range of temperatures yesterday jjf^ii vi highest s4 filsr lowest 61 fe=s average 72 free boat rides and season tickets for chicago's biggest amusement parks cut out the coupons on page 2 of the second news section to-day this edition consists op 1 news city life 2 news 6 want ads 3 â€” spobts real estate *â€” society financial foreign 7 magazine 5 editorial 8 comic